Author Archives: John B Ledger

‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’

‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’ (2020, mixed media on paper) It Wasn’t the best day to put aside to photo-document my new work (lighting is terrible), but anyway… If I’m to condense this work into one subject, ‘‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’ ’ is about an experience of desensitisation,Continue reading “‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’”

Limited edition map books

Finally got around to getting these done! I’ve been trying to work out a way of making my work own able for years. I’ve always found selling originals problematic; not only does it sometimes seem counterproductive to sell something I have spent 3 months developing, and then have nothing to exhibit, it also doesn’t makeContinue reading “Limited edition map books”

‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’

‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’Mixed media on paper. I decided it was best not to present this work with a formal ‘explanation’, as I’m hoping my next work will do the explaining. But I’m happy to discuss what it is about.Been pretty intense trying put this work together, I almost ripped it in halfContinue reading “‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’”

Self portrait during a culture war

(2020, mixed media on paper) ‘Self portrait during a culture war’. (mixed media on paper)’.  In a sense I think I’m making this work for social media, for our over dependency on it during a time of restricted physical socialising, for the way it is shaping physical reality the more we rely on it.  IContinue reading “Self portrait during a culture war”

Drawing feels relevant again

After using drawing as the main mode of expression for my art for well over 10 years, a couple of years ago I just stopped. I didn’t stop making art, so to speak, but it felt like drawing, my way of drawing, had not only run out of steam, but relevance. The reasons for thisContinue reading “Drawing feels relevant again”

Kraftwerk in the time of Covid 19

This may seem like a ‘stretch’, but I argue that renewed interest in the music of Kraftwerk, brought about by recent passing of co-founder Florian Schneider, makes for strange resonances and recollections in a world partially suspended by the outbreak of Covid 19. Now, I’m not usually one to share news of the death ofContinue reading “Kraftwerk in the time of Covid 19”